I am pleased to announce the publication of an edited volume on the Balkans that may be of interest to list members.
More info can be found on the following webpage:
http://www.c- s-p.org/Flyers/ Mythistory- and-Narratives- of-the-Nation- in-the-Balkans. htm
Below you can find a brief description of the collection, followed by the list of articles featured in the collection.
Tatjana Aleksic
Rutgers University
The idea of this collection is to bring to the forefront various ways in
which the literary poetics of Balkan nations interrelates with their
national poetics, and present recent and innovative explorations of
literature and film which actively engage with national poetics, a kind of
mythopoiesis of the modern Balkans.
In proposing an approach to the national question that lies distinctly in
the liminal space best designated as mythistory, the collection brings
together two dominant approaches to national discourse. The first tends to
interpret the nation as a myth, an artificial creation, an invention, even
a "dream." The other is a mapping of the nation that considers its
historically progressive role. It is their multifaceted dynamics that
brings to the foreground a unique national mythopoetics.
Mythistory is explored through its multifold engagement with the text: as
a major element in the universal nationalist discourse, as a narrative
strategy extensively utilized in Balkan literary and film narratives, and
as a particular technique in approaching the text. Through the insights
gained from literary and critical theory, historical analysis, and
cultural anthropology, this collection seeks to reveal the application of
mythistorical discourse upon narratives responding to nation-forming
historical events. The texts in this collection articulate very distinct
agendas of gender, identity, culture, philosophy, and aesthetics, all
interwoven with national problematic, but steer away from the definition
by which mythistory is relegated to the transparently propagandist.
Introduction: Mythistorical Genres of the Nation
Tatjana Aleksić
Danubian Bridges and Divides: Balkan Multiculturality North and South
of the Danube
Marcel Cornis-Pope
Leksikon Yu Mitologije: Reading Yugoslavia from Abramović to žmurke
Jessie Labov
Tunnels, Trenches, Cellars: Nation and Heterotopia in post-Yugoslav Film
Meta Mazaj
Where Europe Begins: Ismail Kadare's The Three-Arched Bridge
and the Contemporary Albanian Debate on European Integration
Julia Musha
The Balkan Immurement Legend: Between Myth and a Nationalist Project
Tatjana Aleksić
Gears behind the Stage: Rhetorical Structures of the National
Imagination/ s
Alexander Kiossev
The Bridge between the Classical and the Balkan
Artemis Leontis
Post-Oriental avliya: Translating the Balkans into Globalese
Tomislav Longinović
Ulysses' Gaze and the Myth of Balkan History
Marinos Pourgouris
Bridging Divides or Divisive Bridges?: Balkan Critical Obsessions
and their Political Effects
Vangelis Calotychos
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